Hey lovely Beach Cottage ladies! We’re doing a recipe today in Beach Cottage Land.
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Now, I have had a couple of emails over the last few weeks about salad, summer salad, winter salad, Christmas salad. You name it, we’ve been talking salads.
And funnily enough from those of you who are not in places where it’s salad time of year…from those of you who are COLD! Like a cold that I cannot remember…
Lesley emailed me this
Hi Sarah. I am in the middle of Winter but still love salads, I recently tried your beet salad and, girl, we all loved it, I never would have tried beets like that, even my DH like it! So do you have any other salads that you do all the time that I might not have tried?
Well, I have lots of salads but this one we have all the time..mostly because it’s something very tasty & moves the humble tomato to new levels.
There are probs many of you who don’t, for sure, need a recipe for Tomato & Buffalo Mozzarella salad…because, actually, there’s little more to this than arranging it on a plate, shoving on some oil and hoping for the best… …but over the years the way I make it has changed a bit..I add a couple of things you don’t normally see it with…
The first time I had this was when I was just going out with Mr Beach Cottage…in a grey, dark and working class town just outside London, in one seriously good little Italian restaurant…we about lived in that place…it was cheap and special and to our un-sophisticated very English palates, there was a little bit of magic thrown in there too.
It sat on a grimy, grey little street, with a typical front window of a 60′s/70′s working class English town, read : not too attractive… They had added some gingham curtains, thrown oilcloth on the tables, used old wine bottles for water and there were candles and the odd spray or two of flowers around.
And as we walked in off the street, through a grey, dusty aluminium shop door, we were transported to a little part of Italy we had never known.
The owners were from Calabria and the guy who ran it worked his little socks off..he could teach the waiters around here a thing or two…he worked the whole restaurant on his own, waiting all the tables, sometimes with help on a Saturday night, and we never got such good service…
the food, simple, easy, natural ingredients, dressed up with the best Italian olive oils…and one of the first times I came across my beloved friend, the humble bottle of Peroni…
So anyway, one night we tried the tomato salad…it was little more than a couple of tomatoes, some oh-so-very thinly cut blades of red onion, dressed with olive oil, a smattering of balsamic and lots of salt..I had never tasted something quite as good, in the depths of that grey little English town on a grey little summer’s evening…here we ate and drank and pretended we were chic and rich and Continental..
Then I upgraded to the buffalo Mozzarella salad, it was another of their simple but divine starters…in those days you didn’t find Mozarrella in England gracing the shelves of every supermarket, and I thought it quite exotic, this little ball of Italian cheese that slipped down so very pleasantly and quite honestly, I have been trying it all over the place ever since…
So over the years, I have had this various ways…recently had it at my friend Ali’s house…she used the mini Bocconcini and cherry tomatoes, basil leaves threaded onto cocktails sticks and dressed with oil on the plate…really nice way to serve it as a little appetiser on the deck…
My fave though has become adding chives and a clove of garlic…I always have chives growing in my garden, but if you don’t have them or don’t want to pay for a little pot of them… I use Spring Onion (you may call that shallot) as finely sliced as possible…or at a push a regular onion
…I also like to finely chop a clove of garlic..much much better when it is new garlic, but if you are a garlic lover it doesn’t really matter…
So what follows is a casual guideline for the salad…foof around with it ’til you get what you like…you can’t go wrong!
Beach Cottage Too Easy Tomato & Basil Mozzarella Salad
3 cups sliced tomatoes
2 cups mozzarella buffalo cheese
1 clove garlic finely chopped
1 handful chives, ripped or snipped
small handful basil leaves
olive oil
salt & pepper
Lay on a plate & drizzle with olive oil and a generous grinding of salt & pepper
Beach Cottage Notes* I like to use different colour tomatoes if I have grown them or can find them in the shops…particularly the black and the yellow * I prefer the whole balls of mozzarella to the mini bocconcini…just because I like the ripped and rough and ready look on the plate, yeah I am weird like that * if you happen to have any leftovers use for bruschetta *the amounts above are for a fairly large salad, adjust accordingly for your family *I often do this as a starter to sit on the deck with and pick at *I am no food snob but by the best Mozzarella you can afford…you’ll know it when you taste it * I like to use an old vintage platter to serve *the platter above is a smaller version of the main recipe…play with the quantitiesas you will
So, if you need a little bit of summer in your life, or you are sitting on a deck, feeling all coastal, propping up an Adirondack, or you are stuck in the depths of Winter and are happy to forego the Food Mile thing, then get yourself one of these tasty little salads…on a vintage platter…a white one, no less, and think of me
That’s it from the beaches, little Beach Cottage peeps…errrm I have the bathroom to show you next…I hope you can take a DEEP breath in and imagine what this will look like when it’s finished ‘cos right now it looks downright frightful…
Love Caprese Salad… I make an altered version for parties… using cherry tomatoes and mini-moz. balls… basil- all stacked on a toothbpick… huge favorite among my friends… this looks like it might makes its way into my menu this week
I just love me some caprese! Mine is simply tomato, basil, mozzarella, extra virgin olive oil and balsamic vinegar. Perfect anytime of year but especially in the summer when tomatoes are at their peak! Fun posting Sarah. I like how the images are like mini movies! Marcia
looks beautiful! I saw the same salad on another blog over the weekend and she stuck it under the grill for a few seconds to melt the cheese a bit, and called it breadless pizza to get her child to eat it
love me a caprese salad (and a beetroot and walnut one) and the peroni tops it off. great photography yet again. Sarah you hsould do a post on how to layer the photos like a video. love it
cheers Fiona
I’ll have to keep my eye out for Peroni at the specialty markets when summer returns. White wintery wonderland at the moment, made winter squash soup for dinner that was divine…. bet my husband would have really liked a beer with that too come to think of it (wink). ❈
YUM! This reminds me of one of my favorite summer salads that I make. This has three of my favorite things tomatos, fresh basil, and motzarella! You just cannot go wrong. LOVE that combo!
And I love it when our tomatos are fresh from the garden.
My kind of food Sarah… I was thinking of doing something like this for my lunch today only I don’t have mozzarella so I was going to use haloumi cheese. I love garlic but find it hard to eat it raw (even when diced very finely) so I usually either crush it (and mix it into the olive oil and balsamic vingar together)or I use a generous dose of garlic salt sprinkled on the tomatoes. I am also loving this Salad onion that Woolies is selling (exceptionally mild, similar to the white onion but even more mild), so mild that my eyes don’t even shed a tear (usually it can get so bad that I have to stop a quater of the way in and leave the kitchen to provide my eyes some relief). Me being me, I am also going to add some ham(off the bone) to this just to add a bit more protein to the plate hee…hee…
Tomatoes remind me of my deceased grandma… When I was little we (my parents and brother) lived with her (and grandad) in the european country side for a year…. I used to have to go down the really steep steps out of the kitchen to her vegie patch to pick huge, juicy tomatoes for the daily salad she would make everyday… She used to always get me to pick the green tomatoes… I used to love eating them. Funny enough I have never seen them here though I have noticed that supermarkkets are bringing in different varieties now (about time)…
Yum!
yes I was very surprised here how there aren’t many varieties of tomatoes in the shops…with the huge and lovely variety of fruit and veg we have here I always think why no yellow, black tomatoes and different varieties? weird
there’s nothing like picking a fresh tom from the garden and popping it in your mouth is there?
x
I too like those black tomatoes that woolies used to have, I haven’t seen them this year.I have this salad with truffle oil, you can really appreciate the truffle flavour, I use the Simon johnson white truffle oil, yummo!
Ha! I bought the buffalo mozzarella today and some yummo tomatoes, I remembered the name of the black ones, Kumato. We haven’t seen them here this year! I have the basil in the garden, So I have all the goodies ready to go for brunch tomorrow.
Looks great!! Do you have a favourite mozzarella to recommend??
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Fab photography Sarah!!
Thanks to you, I just got my lunch sorted. I dont know if I would get that cheese here, at the moment, but think Ricotta would taste alright or even go with it? I have all the other ingredients. Love the gif files you’ve put. Specially the last one.
Ah just what I’m having for lunch (yes i know it’s late for lunch but ended up at fire shed for a while) gone for the thick slice of roma tomato, salt, pepper, basil leaf, avacado, buffalo mozzarella, olive oil MMmmmmmm just what i needed in this heat
I have a deep deep love of bruschetta…… yes, it runs Deeeeep. But I also have a sad, deep love of all things fetta… so I substitute and am in a little slice of Italian heaven each time.
So funny, this is my favorite salad my husband makes for me minus the mozerrella. Surprisngly, tomatoes are hard to grow here. It’s either too hot, too mildewe or too windy. I’ve tried so many times to grow them but seem to only get one good crop from them then they wilt and die. I do hope that in my new house that I will have better luck in growing them. Aloha!
that’s a shame Ingrid, I have a friend who has the same with her garden here.. even with this summy climate, her garden produces, for some reason, mildew tomatoes…go figure xx
Hello! I am an Italian girl. This is a special delight in my area: Mediterranean.
Tomatoes and mozzarella I produce them at home, because I live in a rural area where natural products are grown!
See you soon. Your blog is wonderful!
I’ve always been a massive salad lover. In fact this evening on this really hot summers days here in Melbourne – we had chicken salad for supper. Have you tried your salad with mixed seeds? Always add to mine….
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G'day ladies, let's have a Too Easy Beach Cottage recipe yeah? The original place for Too Easy Recipes on the web ;-)
So, after my last salad went down a storm in my inbox, that's here if you missed it, I had to do this one seeing as I make it most weeks.
There is a problem with this salad and kiddos though...it looks, well, it looks, kinda yucky...but once they try it, they'll ask if and when they are next having it....at least that's what happens in this ratty old cottage...but I must interject here that my kiddos are 'good eaters'? ...they didn't get a choice in that ;-)
Now, stop, don't start running and hitting that next on your blog reading list, pulses are your best friend in the Too Easy Dump & Go kitchen for the busy mum, or busy anyone for that matter...that reminds me I must blog the garlic canneloni Go To for when you forgot to do dinner, feel like a bath but have three ravenous young Beach Cottage Kiddos on your hands...another day.
I am almost embarrassed to tell you how easy this is, we have it so much that I always have a couple, make that six, cans of lentils around and a jar of goat's cheese in the fridge...the great thing about this is that it's all too easy to get ready in just a few minutes, but it looks, tastes and seems like you did oh so very much more than that.
You can obviously too change it up a bit depending on what you have to hand in your kitchen, and I must say that is how I settled on this version...because one day when I made it I didn't have enough Parsley in the garden and so I chucked in some basil too, and liked the Summer feel it added.
I think of this as being a rather posh salad, not sure why, because it couldn't really be further from the truth...the great thing is that it works so well for an average run of the mill day, (when I did this for this blog post, it was a hot Sydney Sunday and I did it just simply to go with Rosemary & Garlic stuffed pork, you can see that pork here),
...but just as easily it works on a regular old Wednesday night when you have lost all enthusiasm for rustling up yet another meal, or indeed on Saturday night, when your friends are on their way over for dinner and you my friend, are in your new vintage inspired clawfoot bathtub (that's me in a few weeks time, k?) without any clothes on, a tipple and no idea what to cook for dinner...
I have a complicated and ever-changing relationship with goat's cheese...it never fails me in its performance and it never fails to impress me (you can find out a bit more on what I like in food here if you like) and I kinda collect it...because it's very easy to collect and has a fairly long fridge-life, I love trying out different ones and there's not many things I love more than goat's cheese on sourdough...but I think the best thing about it is not thinking about it exclusively in the toast/salad department...I've stuffed it in chicken and all sorts of things as a last minute and it's been fab.
But let's get down to the nitty gritty of this super salad that makes you look like an angel who has been on her knees all day scrubbing the front step when really you are in the digital world and spent most of ...
G'day Beach Cottage ladies, howdy, howdy howdy today for a Beach Cottage Too Easy recipe.
If you like cake, cream, sugar and chocolate, make this.
This is, rather than a recipe, a putting it together...as you know I am no dessert maker, but, I do make quite a few sweet things, because, somehow I have ended up with kiddos, who in their roles as offspring, believe that part of the deal, is that not only do I feed them a home-cooked meal with a few homegrown ingredients in there, yes, they also believe that dessert and not the kind that comes out of a packet is included too in this All-Inclusive Deal they call Parenthood.
So, this, for sure, is no culinary masterpiece, but if you are looking for something that is so very easy, dump-able, uses everyday ingredients and at the same time makes you look like you spent hours pulling things together plus tastes good....well, then this is for you.
Best though, you don't make this for yourself, if you have spent the most part of your week sitting on your derriere reading blogs...this my friend ain't low in the calories department...if, however, you are treating yourself to a delight in a mason jar, this is so for you.
I first had a version of this when at dinner back in Old Blighty with a girl, I once, in another life, caught the train up from our village to London with...she was a funny thing really...I am not quite sure how we got on...she was kinda prissy and a bit bothered by too much...I would run to the train flustered, having got up late, and she would have a spreadsheet on the train times, if you know what I mean.
Anyway, a few years later when we both had bambinos, I bumped into her again and we met up for playdates and dinner sometimes....this particular night, after a lovely meal she served up little bowls of creamy, cakey fruity stuff topped off with chocolate flake...it was delicious!
She didn't serve hers in little jars like this, hers were in a champagne glass and not quite so layered as these ones, plus she used tinned fruit not fresh or frozen.
Years later when said offspring kept requesting dessert, one day I wangled together somehow these from what was around in the fridge and they've been with us ever since.
Most likely, if you ever come here for dinner, and shock horror, you dont' bring the dessert with you, this, if you are lucky, will be what you will get.
Throw it all together, sprinkle a lil bit of chocolate on the top and the blog reading past-time you so rudely left in order to make this, is my friend, your oyster.
Beach Cottage Too Easy Layered Raspberry, Cream & Sponge Dessert
1 small maderia or butter cake or a pack of cupcakes (or of course make your own)
1/2 cup whipping cream
1/2 cup cream cheese
1/4 cup sugar
8 tbsp fruit
1 x chocolate Flake or chocolate bar for grating
1. beat the cream cheese until it is soft
2. whip the cream until soft peaks form
3. combine & add the sugar through
4. cut your cake into portions
& layer into the bottom of your jar
5. add a tablespoon of fruit
6. layer on top the cream combo
7. repeat
8. grate chocolate or Flake on top
*Beach Cottage Recipe Notes : this is just a guide really, you can use any cream that you have on hand...I have made this with clotted cream (don't even go there unless you want to seriously get these babies on your thighs), with double cream and I have even, in desperate times squirted in that, ...
G'day Beach Cottage ladies, well I thought it was time for some blogging tips here today, alongside a few nice flowers and shells ;-)
I was recently part of a blogger discussion group over at Kidspot and a couple of hours later had a few questions from girls who couldn't make it to the live chat, one was on my Facebook page and one via email, the Facebook one I will deal with in another Real Girl Blogging Tips post...the email one asked me what essentials do I think every blog needs?
Well I have been around here for a while now doing the blogging thing, so I should know this, yeah and I mused this on my walk by the sea this morning I thought well what do you only need?
...I think it is really very easy when blogging, whether or not you are blogging up there in the lofty heights of the Super Bloggers or you are just dipping your toe in the water, to get side-tracked by 101 million different things that are 'essential' to your blog and if you are someone like me who actually gets a thrill from reading blogging tips then you are in an even worse place because you will find yourself literally buzzing with these essential things to add/do/implement on your blog.
However, walking along, gulping down that brisk sea air today (no sunshine & clouds) I thought you actually don't need any of that professional blogging stuff to be successful...but there are a few things that are pretty much crucial ...and once I started to think about it I got it down to about 5 - these are the only things that you need to concentrate on...once you have read through take a look at some of the big girl's blogs...you'll see that actually they don't have bundles of stuff on their blogs...but they do have all of these...
So here are my top things that your blog must have
1. About Page
There are all sorts of About Pages out there, and if you search on it there are many different tips and ideas for what to have on yours
Whatever blogging platform you use, adding an About Me Page is easy, quick and simple and will do everything to grow your blog.
I like a long-ish About Page, I am inherently nosy and I like to know a bit more about the person but at the least you should have on it your name and where you are located. I also think a photo is good too...over the last year or so I think this has become more important in blogging - if you are hesitant about that as I was, you can try using sunglasses or a behind shot until you get comfortable.
There is nothing worse than stumbling upon a new blog and going to find out more to only be faced with a piddly little one liner About Me Page...well there is something worse, not having one at all!
2. Contact Page
The chances are someone, somewhere will want to contact you and you will be surprised what lands in your inbox once you put yourself out there on the world wide web with a blog.
Many bloggers also use this page to include details for PR's/brands that may want to contact them and some bloggers put their stats on there too.
A short, to the point and simple Contact Page works really well...whenever I have wanted to contact another blogger I am often very busy and have limited time so I don't want to hang around sifting through information looking for an email address, so concise and clear ...
G'day lovely Beach Cottage lovelies.
So, yeah, so on a roll people, so on a roll.
I feel kinda home accessory wired right now.
I am always telling people, if anyone ever listens, that blogging is all about passion, not that sort of passion, but about passion that makes one tick.
Things like this make me tick tick boom.
I love finding things that suit my budget and let me treat my home but look amazing too.
So without further adieu I introduce you, ladies of the beach, to the blue vintage glasses that I have been stroking for about a week or two now...
These glasses are from a little boutique I sometimes happen upon, this boutique sells also pet accessories, carpet cleaner, bras and compost...it's quite unique though.
And, thanks to my friend Marnie (she blogs over here, go take a look at her praying position, interesting), who just so happens to be one day having me over for a lil' Greek dinner, has let me in on the fact that we call Kmart....The KMart...with an accent ....as in 'I love The KMart'...just like her MIL does. Oh yeah. Love that.
So I have had my eye on reproduction vintage glass blue wine glasses and being trying to find real true vintage blue glasses for like ever.
Oh yes I have spied them in Frenchy boutiques, I have lusted after them in stores that I shouldn't even enter and I have put them back pretty quickly in those shops with the hand-written price tags. C'mon, you know the ones.
And, though all of the above have tempted me, muchly, really, even with my wardrobe stashing skills I just thought that, actually, I'd rather be saving that casherooni for our next trip overseas..
Hello The KMart.
Tick Tick Boom
Vintage style blue wine glasses.
Do not come to my old place and think you might pick up one of these and smile with pleasure at their handblown quality, their weight, and be secretly jealous that my wine glasses cost more than your car...friend, that would not happen...these do not feel like that...indeed these in a funny way reminded me of my baby girl, she was a tiny little thing, with stick legs, the tinsssssssiest ankles and wrists you ever did see, she slept sideways in her cot wedged in between rolled up blankets and would only settle attached to Mr Beach Cottage or I or a (dirty) pj top of mine scrunched up under her nose...the first few times I picked her up to cuddle, being used to Honeymoon Baby who weighed in at 9lbs at birth and has never really stopped growing, I nearly threw her little bird-cum-rat down covered body over my shoulder.
These glasses are like that...be careful or you might lose your wine down the front of your shirt.
But oh baby, we are not talking picking up here, we are not talking quality, we are not talking house accessory snobbery.
Beach Cottage ladies, we are talking aesthetics.
And this is what I need in my cottage.
Blue vintage style glass, paired with coastal / nautical / beach stuff on my deck.
It's The KMart.
Tune in tomorrow, tomorrow, I have more budget foofing for your home, or maybe it will be the dress that wraps me up in supermarket-chic and makes me feel like me again.
Good Day to you my friends, wanna come hang out on my deck, talk house accessories, The KMart and drink some wine from blue glasses?
Sarah
Love Caprese Salad… I make an altered version for parties… using cherry tomatoes and mini-moz. balls… basil- all stacked on a toothbpick… huge favorite among my friends… this looks like it might makes its way into my menu this week
thanks Stacey…yep I do it that way too… x
This look nummy. Love your little stop motion clips.
Karla, I love it, but it’s a bit addictive! x
Looks so yummy and the Peroni of course is an added bonus:)) Enjoy!!
~Cheryl
Fresh Vanilla For C
love me a cold bottle of Peroni Cheryl x
I just love me some caprese! Mine is simply tomato, basil, mozzarella, extra virgin olive oil and balsamic vinegar. Perfect anytime of year but especially in the summer when tomatoes are at their peak! Fun posting Sarah. I like how the images are like mini movies! Marcia
thanks Marcia, I really enjoy making them!
happy days x
looks beautiful! I saw the same salad on another blog over the weekend and she stuck it under the grill for a few seconds to melt the cheese a bit, and called it breadless pizza to get her child to eat it
wow breadless pizza, interesting, I might have a go at that, thanks Karen x
love me a caprese salad (and a beetroot and walnut one) and the peroni tops it off. great photography yet again. Sarah you hsould do a post on how to layer the photos like a video. love it
cheers Fiona
hey Fiona, thanks yes I never seem to get time to do a tutorial!
x
We have fresh tomatoes and basil in the garden- now for the mozzarella!
so very nice fresh from the garden Deanne…enjoy !
sarahx
Well that looks beautiful, summery, and delicious and most importantly, doable. ❈ But what is a Peroni? A beer, or soft drink?
Hi Jen
Peroni is an Italian beer…..it works very well in hot weather, and I covet it
xx
I’ll have to keep my eye out for Peroni at the specialty markets when summer returns. White wintery wonderland at the moment, made winter squash soup for dinner that was divine…. bet my husband would have really liked a beer with that too come to think of it (wink). ❈
YUM! This reminds me of one of my favorite summer salads that I make. This has three of my favorite things tomatos, fresh basil, and motzarella! You just cannot go wrong. LOVE that combo!
And I love it when our tomatos are fresh from the garden.
CAN’T WAIT to see the bathroom.
haha Fiona, you are not gonna be loving the bathroom very much, it looks terrible at the moment!
x
My kind of food Sarah… I was thinking of doing something like this for my lunch today only I don’t have mozzarella so I was going to use haloumi cheese. I love garlic but find it hard to eat it raw (even when diced very finely) so I usually either crush it (and mix it into the olive oil and balsamic vingar together)or I use a generous dose of garlic salt sprinkled on the tomatoes. I am also loving this Salad onion that Woolies is selling (exceptionally mild, similar to the white onion but even more mild), so mild that my eyes don’t even shed a tear (usually it can get so bad that I have to stop a quater of the way in and leave the kitchen to provide my eyes some relief). Me being me, I am also going to add some ham(off the bone) to this just to add a bit more protein to the plate hee…hee…
Tomatoes remind me of my deceased grandma… When I was little we (my parents and brother) lived with her (and grandad) in the european country side for a year…. I used to have to go down the really steep steps out of the kitchen to her vegie patch to pick huge, juicy tomatoes for the daily salad she would make everyday… She used to always get me to pick the green tomatoes… I used to love eating them. Funny enough I have never seen them here though I have noticed that supermarkkets are bringing in different varieties now (about time)…
Yum!
I like the sound of your lunch Alice
yes I was very surprised here how there aren’t many varieties of tomatoes in the shops…with the huge and lovely variety of fruit and veg we have here I always think why no yellow, black tomatoes and different varieties? weird
there’s nothing like picking a fresh tom from the garden and popping it in your mouth is there?
x
Nope, the flavour compares to none of the tomatoes from a supermarket – so much more delicious!
for sure!
Yummmmmm and love the stop motion! Love from Rainy Noosa xx
g’day from rainy Sydney
it just lashed down, but the surf’s good…
xo
I too like those black tomatoes that woolies used to have, I haven’t seen them this year.I have this salad with truffle oil, you can really appreciate the truffle flavour, I use the Simon johnson white truffle oil, yummo!
Ha! I bought the buffalo mozzarella today and some yummo tomatoes, I remembered the name of the black ones, Kumato. We haven’t seen them here this year! I have the basil in the garden, So I have all the goodies ready to go for brunch tomorrow.
I hoped you enjoyed…I haven’t seen any different tomatoes this year and the yellow ones in my garden didn’t do so well xo
Just copied out the recipe. It’s got simple written all over it- my kind of recipe!! Thanks for sharing
you are welcome…I love writing out recipes when you find them, I have scraps of paper all over the place! x
Looks great!! Do you have a favourite mozzarella to recommend??
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Fab photography Sarah!!
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I love this combination of ingredients. We often have it layered much like the appetiser you mentioned….so good
xx
yep I love the combo Tammi! x
Thanks to you, I just got my lunch sorted.
I dont know if I would get that cheese here, at the moment, but think Ricotta would taste alright or even go with it? I have all the other ingredients. Love the gif files you’ve put. Specially the last one.
Ah just what I’m having for lunch (yes i know it’s late for lunch but ended up at fire shed for a while) gone for the thick slice of roma tomato, salt, pepper, basil leaf, avacado, buffalo mozzarella, olive oil MMmmmmmm just what i needed in this heat
mmm yeah, sounds yummo..our weather turned to hot this afternoon !x
Yep loving this recipe Sarah- I may even buy myself some Peroni’s to crack with it!
I’ve been throwing mango’s into every salad I’ve made since Christmas- perhaps it’s time to get a little Italian
You’ve inspired me to get my vege/herb/salad garden idea’s underway!
Melissa x
haha I bet you are loving the mango!
x
I have a deep deep love of bruschetta…… yes, it runs Deeeeep. But I also have a sad, deep love of all things fetta… so I substitute and am in a little slice of Italian heaven each time.
GREAT shots……. love them all. XX
we could eat bruschetta together at your beach
x
So funny, this is my favorite salad my husband makes for me minus the mozerrella. Surprisngly, tomatoes are hard to grow here. It’s either too hot, too mildewe or too windy. I’ve tried so many times to grow them but seem to only get one good crop from them then they wilt and die. I do hope that in my new house that I will have better luck in growing them. Aloha!
that’s a shame Ingrid, I have a friend who has the same with her garden here.. even with this summy climate, her garden produces, for some reason, mildew tomatoes…go figure xx
Hello! I am an Italian girl. This is a special delight in my area: Mediterranean.
Tomatoes and mozzarella I produce them at home, because I live in a rural area where natural products are grown!
See you soon. Your blog is wonderful!
well G’day Ayame and welcome to Beach Cottage, thanks for stopping by x
Makes me simply want to tuck my happy little self on a deck with a plate of garden goodness… and forget I have 4 kids
Am I allowed to do that?? 
you have to tie the kiddos to trees Fleur
I love that salad but am not supposed to eat tomatoes. I could think about using eggplant (aubergine) or summer squash instead of tomatoes.
oh poor you not being able to eat tomatoes Liz! would be nice with eggplant I believe xo
such cool photography!! and the salad looks amazing–now I’ll have to go make it for lunch
Yummy. And I just love how you’ve layered the photo’s – very flash!!
thanks Glennie, I love playing with the photos x
I’ve always been a massive salad lover. In fact this evening on this really hot summers days here in Melbourne – we had chicken salad for supper. Have you tried your salad with mixed seeds? Always add to mine….
One of my faves…it looks LOVELY!!!